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Erin Mayer Receives a $3,000 Jane N. Ryland Fellowship

Erin Mayer, UH - Downtown's executive director of information technology, was named one of 14 international recipients of the 2007 Jane N. Ryland Fellowship Program by EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit association for higher education information technology professionals seeking to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology (IT).   Since 1998, Ryland Fellowships have been awarded annually to recognize contributions and enhance professional development opportunities for people in information resources leadership roles in higher education. They recognize a combination of past achievement, commitment to higher education and information technology, potential benefit to the individual and the institution, and financial need. Recipients are selected annually on a competitive basis. As a result of the fellowship award, Mayer will be participating in the 2007 EDUCAUSE Institute Leadership Program in Boulder Colorado this summer.  Mayer is the second Texas recipient of the Ryland Fellowship.

"I'm very excited and honored to have been selected as a Ryland Fellow and look forward to exploring new ideas with colleagues at the EDUCAUSE Institute Leadership Program," Mayer says.

Hossein Shahrokhi, associate vice president, Information Technology and UHD primary representative to EDUCAUSE, applauds the award.

"I am pleased to see that EDUCAUSE, the premier education technology group in the nation, has recognized the valuable contributions Erin has made to this university and the IT profession by awarding her the prestigious Ryland Fellowship, through which she will take part in an advanced technology leadership program," says Shahrokhi.

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